Strand: God, Religion and Society (GRSL5-6E1)
Levels 5 and 6
The mutual relationship between God and the People of God is a covenant relationship lived, ritualised, celebrated and reverenced by people of the Christian, Jewish and Islamic faith today.
Determine patterns of lifestyle and religious expression that reflect a covenantal relationship between God and the People of God across Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths.
Elaborations
Scripturally understood, covenant relationship is a binding relationship which invites the People of God, in freedom, to surrender to God in response to God’s love.
In exploring the origins of covenantal relationship, examples in Scripture include and are not limited to:
- for the Jewish faith, refer to the Genesis 17:1-6; Genesis 9; Exodus 19;20; 24: 3-8
- for the Muslim faith, refer to Genesis 17:1-6; Gen 9
- for the Christian faith- refer to the Old Testament (Genesis & Exodus references) and Jesus as the ‘New Covenant’ in the New Testament (Luke 22:20). Patterns of lifestyle could include food that is eaten (e.g.halal; kosher), clothes worn (e.g.teflen), religious practices (e.g fasting and abstinence).
See Learning Lites: People of God, Abrahamic Religions
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See Learning Lites: People of God, Abrahamic Religions